News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-17
STORY OF THE "UPROAK."
The Yorkshire Man who Took in the Opera
and What He Thought oft

Two Yorkshiremen were each yer,
fond of music, and often talked upoi
the subject. At last it was announced
that travelling opera troupe from Lon
don would visit the provincial towns
and take in tie place where these mer
were employed. The following morn
ing they discussed the matter in thi.
way: Jamie, said one, ''didst evel
hear the uproarW (operal. "Nae, mon
aw never heard the uproar" ''What
thinkst of it Jamie?" "We |, mon, ]
can tell thee but little aboot it. 81 ill
go and hear it, Jamie?" "Nae. mon,
can lite afford it, with all the Children
longing to go to schule and little to send
them wiz" "Well, Jamie, aw beant
worth much, but aw shall go to see the
uproar." AYE, mon, go on, nae doot
| it a very fine, and l shall want to hear
about it, mon, and thee can tell me in
the morning. So is was de ided that
John should go the opera and report to
Jamie what he heard. After the per-
fermance was over, Jamie began his
inquiries "Didst 90 to the uproar?"
"Aye, mon" "What Ii e was itY'' 81
Gamma describe it, Jamie. s'Was it
good2 was it what ye expectedY'
"Well, Gamma say it was. "What
like was it then2" II tellst thee, Jamie ::
| Gamma describe, unless we supporse a
case. AYE, supporse it then. {"
''Well, supporse Jamie Shaw, wur to
ask thee to lend me tiny saw?' "Of
course l would say take it, mon," re-
Piled Jamie. "But we are suppors1ng a
case, wilt thou lend me thy saw?"
AYE, take it." ''Will ye wait and say
nothing2" "Oh, aye, 1 sec, go on,
mon" Well, then, young Teddy minced
from beyond to the front of the plat
form and screamed, Jimmy Jimmy
Jimmy Jimmy Sha W, lend me, oh
lend me, al lend me thy sav-aw-aw-
awhn and she nearly shook her head off,
When she was just about to faint
great big lout bounced out from the
other side, made up horrid face and
roared in bass, Take the sawl take the
sawl take, oh take the saw! Then the
little fiddles and clarinets and horns
ook it up played it all over, what the
others had screamed and roared. A
man stood up and waved a stick round
his head, and the woman and man went
at it again, and more came out and hol-
Tered as loud as they could veil. Then
they got tired all out and could scarcely
sing, if you could call it singing, above
a whisper: and a big moustachoed fellow
sang something to painted Teddy, and
she cried and laid, lend me thy saw,
and he blubbered and said, take the
saw And after ey had gone through
with the same thing all night nearly
they all got mad, and the little flddles
and big fiddles and all | have told thee
about, and the snare and kettle and
bass drums and ophclieds and trombones
and bassoons, cymbals and triangles
started up, and the fellow with the big
stick went at them and threatened to
beat their brains out with both hands
and they blowed and pounded and
clear through the gamut, up
and down dragged the treble and bass
clefs off the staff, filled the spaces with
screeches and groans, and all the time
it was Jimmy jum imony immiping,
e e-e nd me thy saw aw aw wa saw
and when they crashed saw out the last
time | expected there was an earthquake
and the place coming down about our
heads. That jamie is all the sense l
could see to it. as if they wanted to
borrow your saw and had got two hun
dred people to ask you"